The next morning, Twilight woke up to the morning sunlight streaming in through her bedroom window, feeling its warmth on her face. She sat up in bed and rubbed her eyes with her hooves to get the rest of the sleepyness out. She looked down at Spike's small bed sitting in front of her bed to find it empty. The little dragon was probably busy doing his morning chores, she guessed. Suddenly, her nose picked up the scent of cooked breakfast coming from down stairs. Her stomach growled and she became aware of how hungry she was. She got out of bed and, after brushing her mane and tail, headed down stairs.

She found Spike walking out of the kitchen with their breakfast. Two plates of hot pancakes with a glass of orange juice each. Her mouth watered as she realized that was what she had been smelling. Spike set their breakfast down on the table and climbed into one of the chairs.

"Mm, Spike," said Twilight as she walked up to the table and sat down in the other chair. "Breakfast looks good. I'm starving!"

"You're welcome," said the baby dragon with a smile.

Twilight used her magic to levitate her knife and cut up her pancakes with it. When she took her first bite, Twilight thought that these were the best pancakes she had ever had.

"Oh, Spike, these are delicious!" said Twilight has she hurriedly took another bite.

Spike looked at her odd. "They're the same recipe I always use."

Twilight didn't appear to hear him as she shoveled the pancakes into her mouth. She hardly chewed at all as the pancakes were so warm and moist and sweet. She just couldn't get enough.

Her plate was clean in less than a minute. Spike stared at her and her empty plate wide eyed as she was gulping down her orange juice.

"Wow! I guess you were really hungry!" exclaimed Spike.

Just then Twilight's stomach growled again. "Still am," said the unicorn as she brought her hoof to her stomach.

Spike blinked in disbelief. "But… you just had three pancakes!"

"What can I say? I'm still a little peckish," Twilight shrugged.

She got up from the table and walked into the kitchen. "Maybe I'll just have a little something more before going out today," she told herself. She searched through the cupboards and cabinets, looking for something else to eat. She soon found a box of crackers. "Perfect."

She opened up the box and used her magic to levitate it above her head and then poured its contents into her mouth.

She chewed up the crackers and then swallowed. Still not satisfied, Twilight kept looking through the cupboards, grabbing anything eatable she could find and tossing it into her mouth. She gobbled up three apples, chugged down the rest of the orange juice as well as a carton of milk, poured a bag of potato chips into her mouth, and finally, inhaled an entire loaf of bread.

Just then, Spike, having just finished his own breakfast, walked in with his dirty plate and glass. He almost dropped the dish and cup at what he saw. All the food cupboards and cabnets were open and much of the food inside was missing. He looked at Twilight as she was finishing the loaf of bread. Had she really eaten all that? He thought.

After finishing the bread, Twilight was no longer hungry. She closed her eyes and sighed with contentment. "Well, see ya, Spike," she said cheerfully as she walked past Spike out of the kitchen towards the front door. "I have to go to Applejack's and help her harvest apples today."

Spike heard the front door open and shut as Twilight left their home. Spike looked around him at the kitchen, still surprised at how much Twilight had eaten. The dragon sighed. "Guess I better go grocery shopping," he muttered to himself as he went to grab some money.

It was another beautiful day as Twilight walked to Sweet Apple Acers. A perfect day for outside work. When Twilight got to the Apple family's farm, she was greeted by Applejack and was surprised to see Rainbow Dash there as well. The blue pegasus, however, didn't look very happy.

"Hiya, Twilight," said Applejack.

"Hi Applejack," said Twilight as she walked up to her friends. "Hi Rainbow Dash. I'm surprised to see you here."

Rainbow Dash gave an annoyed snort. Applejack grinned evilly. "Well, we were havin' a push up rematch and this time she wasn't allowed to use her wings to cheat. I won, so now she has to help with the work here on the farm for a whole week."

Rainbow Dash grumbled. "The only thing I hate more then loosing is working," she said under her breath.

"Well, Rainbow Dash, you have to uphold your agreements," said Twilight with a smile.

Rainbow Dash scowled and grumbled some more.

"Come on, now. Lets get to work," said Applejack as she flopped on a pair of baskets over her back. "With any luck, we can be done with today's part of the grove by lunch time."

Twilight and Rainbow Dash also put on a pair of baskets and followed the orange Earth pony into the orchard. As they were walking through the orchard, Twilight spotted Applejack's older brother, Big Macintosh, a ways off through the trees, pulling a cart with baskets in it filled with apples. He saw them too and smiled at them before getting back to pulling his cart.

The three mares stopped when they came to another cart sitting in the grove and a group of trees with baskets placed neatly around their bases. Applejack walked up to one of the trees that was filled with apples. She turned around and kicked the tree hard with her powerful hind legs. Like magic, the apples all fell from the branches and landed neatly in the baskets.

"Alright," said Applejack. "Rainbow, you go buck them apple trees to the east of here, and Twilight, you take care of them apple trees west. The baskets are already there."

Twilight and Rainbow Dash walked of in their separate directions. Like Applejack had said, the trees all had baskets near them waiting. Twilight set up several baskets under one of the trees walked up to the trunk. Normally, she would use her unicorn magic to levitate the Apples out of the trees and into the baskets, but today she felt different. She felt stronger, and more energized. She wanted to try it the non-magical way for a change. She turned around and with a small grunt she kicked the tree with her hind legs as hard as she could. To Twilight's pleasant surprise, all the apples fell from their branches and landed perfectly in the baskets.

Twilight was amazed with herself. Wow, she thought to herself. I must be stronger than I thought. She decided to keep bucking without magic for the rest of the day.

Twilight continued bucking the apple trees, watching happily each time as the apples would fall into the baskets. Before she knew it, all the apple trees Applejack had 'assigned' her were bucked clean. She looked at the sun and could tell it was now close to midday. Had time really gone by that quickly? She had thought that at this point she would be exhausted and achy, but she actually hardly felt tired at all. However, she sure felt hungry.

As if to confirm this, her stomach gave a low growl. She looked over at her handy work. All those ripe, fresh apples now bucked and sitting in the baskets. She found herself walking over to one of the baskets. They all looked so juicy and delicious. She glanced around her. No one was around, and she was sure Applejack wouldn't mind if she had just one apple.

She picked up the top apple in the basket with her magic and bit into it. Its moist insides crunched in her mouth, its juices leaking out her lips into her chin fur. It tasted so good and refreshing. She took another bit, and then another. Soon she popped the rest of the apple into her mouth and quickly chewed it up and swallowed.

She wanted more. One apple just wasn't enough. Without thinking, she picked up another apple with her magic and brought it into her mouth, chomping it down with haste. Then she picked up another and chomped it down, and then another. She just couldn't get enough and was soon shoving the apples into her mouth two at a time.

She was about to pull another out of her basket when suddenly an angry voice behind her shouted, "TWILIGHT, WHAT THE HAY ARE YOU DOING?"

Twilight whirled around to find Rainbow Dash standing there, her expression somewhere between anger and shock. Twilight remembered she still had part of a mostly chewed apple in her mouth and then realized what she had just done. She looked back at the basket and saw it was empty. She had eaten the entire basket!

Shocked, she swallowed the bit of apple still in her mouth and then turned back to Rainbow Dash with her head hung low. "I-I'm sorry Rainbow Dash," she sighed. "I don't know what came over me. Please don't tell Applejack. It won't happen again. I promise."

Rainbow Dash's expression turned sympathetic and then she smiled. "Ah, don't sweat it, Twilight. It was only a few apples. To tell you the truth, I've actually been napping whenever Applejacks not looking. You keep my secret, I'll keep yours." She winked at Twilight.

Twilight didn't approve of Rainbow Dash slacking off, but she was relieved that Applejack wouldn't find out about what she had just done. Although she wondered if Rainbow Dash knew just how many apples she had eaten.

"Thank you," she told the blue Pegasus.

Rainbow Dash flew off and Twilight turned back to the apples. She suppressed the urge to eat any more and got to work gathering up the baskets to take them over to the cart.

After many trips back and forth, she got all the apple baskets on the cart. She guessed Applejack and Rainbow Dash were off still working.

She was about to go and find them when out of the corner of her eye she saw Big Macintosh coming down the dirt path towards her, his cart now empty and ready to load with more apples.

The unicorn's eyes suddenly locked on the stallion's big, well toned body. She had always found him to be an attractive stallion, but this was the first time she had ever really 'noticed' him. A strange feeling was going through Twilight's body right then. His sweaty coat shimmering in the sunlight, watching his mussels flex while he pulled the cart. Was she being turn on by him?

She found herself walking over to him.

Big Macintosh smiled at her. "Howdy, Miss Twilight," he greeted cheerfully.

Twilight could smell the stench coming off of Big Macintosh's sweaty body as she got closer to him. A strong, musky, masculine scent. And she found she liked it.

"Hello, Big Macintosh," Twilight said, a bit more seductively then she had intended. She stepped in the path of the red stallion, who stopped in front of her.

"Um… Could you please move, Miss Twilight," asked the stallion politely.

"Oh, sorry," Twilight blushed when she realized she was blocking his path. "I was uh… I just couldn't help but admire what a big, strong, handsome stallion you are," she said as she slowly moved closer to him, her breathing coming in anxious, heavy pants.

"Um… thank you," Big Mac said uncomfortably, beginning to blush.

Without warning, Twilight leaned forward and pressed her lips to Big Macintosh's. The stallion's eyes widened in surprise as Twilight captured him in a passionate kiss. He gasped, but found himself not pulling away. Without knowing why, he closed his eyes and accepted the kiss, not resisting one bit.

After several long seconds, Twilight realized what she was doing with a start and quickly pulled away, breaking the kiss. Big Macintosh and her gasped for air. What was she doing? Why had she just kissed him? "S-Sorry. I-I'm not sure why I just did that," she said, her face turning red with embarrassment.

"That… That's alright," Big Macintosh stuttered. He was surprised that Twilight had just kissed him, and completely out of the blue too. Did this unicorn have feelings for him?

"I-I should… get back to work," Twilight said.

"Eeyup," agreed Big Mac.

Twilight got out of the stallions way, who began pulling the cart again down the path. Twilight was still in shock at her own actions.

Not long after Big Macintosh had left, Applejack and Rainbow Dash walked up to the cart with their apples. They were both sweaty as well, but didn't stink like Big Macintosh had. They put their load on the cart with Twilight's and together they pulled it back to the barn.

"Thank y'all for helpin' me out today," Applejack said as they were walking.

"Glad I could help," said Twilight.

"Yeah, me too," said Rainbow Dash.

Applejack glared at the blue pegasus. "Rainbow Dash, ya had no choice, remember?"

"Oh, yeah."

When they finished taking the apples to the barn, Twilight's stomach growled loudly. She looked at her friends and chuckled sheepishly. "Well I'm hungry! Why don't we go into town and get some lunch together?"

Applejack and Dash nodded in agreement. "Sounds good to me," said Applejack.

The three friends walked off into town.